In history and political science, to purge is to remove people considered by the group in power to be "undesirable" from a government, political party, a profession, or from community or society as a whole, often by violent means. Restoration of people from a purge is known as rehabilitation. Notable purges in history The purge has been a political tool throughout recorded history.RomeIn the era of Republican Rome, Gaius Marius proscribed Sullan supporters after he and Cinna ou